Bo Masterson News Today

The federal housing advocate was in Calgary to speak with dozens of women and gender-diverse people about their experiences navigating housing precarity and homelessness — and to hear their recommended solutions to tackle the issue.

Organizations that serve newcomers to Calgary are seeing an unprecedented demand for services — especially for food. Some say government policies need to adapt to better respond to the wave of immigrants and refugees projected to arrive in the future.

Calgary's branch of the Salvation Army says it used to receive about 50,000 toy donations a year before the pandemic. Now that number's down to 15,000.

Calgarys been rated the worst population centre in the country in terms of pay equality, according to a new index of metro areas in Canada.